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Authors: Walter Isaacson

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (85 page)

in
Serapis
fight

Johnson, Samuel (convention delegate)

Johnson, Samuel (writer)

Junto (Leather Apron Club)

BF’s religious talk to
debating style of
members of
models for
as reflection of BF’s persona
subscription library of
topics guide of

Jupin, Mademoiselle

Kames, Henry Home, Lord

Kant, Immanuel

Keats, John

Keillor, Garrison

Keimer, Samuel

Keith, William

King (BF’s slave)

King George’s War

King Philip’s War

Kinnersley, Ebenezer

Kissinger, Henry A.

Lafayette, Marquis de

laissez-faire, doctrine of

Landais, Pierre

La Rochefoucauld, François de

“Late Benjamin Franklin, The” (Twain)

Laud, William

Laurens, Henry

Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent

Lawrence, D. H.

lead poisoning

Leather Apron Club,
see
Junto (Leather Apron Club)

Le Despencer, Francis Dashwood, Lord

Lee, Arthur

Bancroft suspected of spying by
BF’s conflicts with

Lee, Charles

Lee, Francis Lightfoot

Lee, Richard Henry

Lee, William

Leeds, Titan

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

Lemay, J. A. Leo

Le Roy, Jean-Baptiste

“Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania” (Dickinson)

“Letters on England” (Voltaire)

Leverett, John

Lewis, Sinclair

Lexington, Battle of

Leyden jar

Liberty Tree

libraries

Library Company of Philadelphia

lightning rod

Literary History of the American People
(Angoff)

Little Revenge, A
(Randall)

Lives
(Plutarch)

Livingston, Robert

Locke, John

Lodge of the Nine Sisters

Logan, James

London

London Board of Trade

London
Chronicle

London
Evening Post

London mission of

BF-Deborah Franklin correspondence in
BF-Penn confrontations in
BF’s circle of friends in
BF’s departure for
BF’s genealogical excursion in
BF’s Scotland trip in
BF’s surrogate family in
BF’s travels through England in
BF’s trip to continent in
Canada retention as issue in
results of
royal charter debate in
taxation as issue in
William Franklin in

London mission of

Bache-Sally Franklin romance in
Bache’s visit in
BF as colonial spokesman in
BF-Deborah Franklin correspondence in
BF’s cockpit ordeal in
BF’s invention interests in
BF’s motives in
BF’s scientific experiments in
BF’s social outlook and
BF’s surrogate family in
BF’s vacation in France in
BF’s vacation of 1771 in
BF-William Franklin rift in
Deborah Franklin’s death and
Hillsborough-BF confrontations in
Howe-Chatham secret talks in
Hutchinson letters affair in
Stamp Act crisis in
Stamp Act repeal battle in
Townshend duties controversy in

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Lopez, Claude-Anne

Louis XV, King of France

Louis XVI, King of France

McCullough, David

McHenry, James

Madison, James

“magazine,”

magnetism

Maier, Paul

Main Currents in American Thought
(Parrington)

Malthus, Thomas

Mansfield, William Murray, Lord

“Marche des Insurgents” (Brillon)

Mareschal, Lord

Marie, Queen of France

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

Marignac, Gabriel Louis de

Markoe, Margaret

Marriage of Figaro, The
(Beaumarchais)

Marshall Plan

Martin, Luther

Mary I, Queen of England

Maryland

Mason, George

Mason & Dixon
(Pynchon)

Massachusetts

anti-tax rebellion in
Stamp Act crisis in

Massachusetts Assembly

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Massachusetts Committee on Correspondence

Massachusetts House of Representatives

matching grant, concept of

Mather, Cotton

library of
smallpox controversy and

Mather, Increase

Mather, Samuel

May, Henry

mechanical arm

Mecom, Jane,
see
Franklin, Jane

Mellon, Thomas

Melville, Herman

BF assessed by

Meredith, Hugh

“meritocracy,”

Mesmer, Friedrich Anton

meteorology

Methodism

Metternich, Klemens von

middle class

values of

Middlekauff, Robert

militia

Militia Association

Miller, Perry

“minutemen,”

Mississippi River

“Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency, A” (Franklin)

“Modest Proposal, A” (Swift)

Mohawk Indians

Monroe Doctrine

Montesquieu, Baron de la Brède et de

Montgolfier, Etienne

Montgolfier, Joseph

moral perfection project

“Morals of Chess, The” (Franklin)

Morellet, André

Morgan, Edmund,

Morrill, Mary,
see
Folger, Mary Morrill

Morris, Gouverneur

Morris, Lewis

Morris, Richard

Morris, Robert

Morris, Robert Hunter

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Musschenbroek, Pieter van

“Narrative of the Late Massacres in

Lancaster County, A” (Franklin)

Nation

Native Americans,
see
Indians

natural rights, concept of

Netherlands

New England Courant

“Silence Dogood” essays in
smallpox dispute in

Newfoundland

New Jersey

William Franklin appointed
governor of

New Jersey Gazette

Newton, Isaac

New York

Nine Sisters, Lodge of

Nini, Giovanni Battista

Nollet, Abbé

Norris, Isaac

North, Lord

North Carolina

Oberg, Barbara

“Observations on the Increase of Mankind” (Franklin)

Ohio valley

Olive Branch Petition

“On Conciliation with America” (Burke)

“On Conversation” (Franklin)

“On Infidelity” (Bradford)

“On the Laboring Poor” (Franklin)

“On the Providence of God in the Government of the World” (Franklin)

Osborne, Charles

Oswald, Richard

Ottawa Indians

Oxford University

Paine, Thomas,

Palmer, Samuel

Pamela
(Richardson)

paper currency

Paris

Paris, Ferdinand John

Paris, Treaty of (1763)

Paris mission of 1776–1785:

Adams-BF rift and
Adams in,
Adams’s return to
American commissioners in
balloon fad in
Bancroft’s spying activities in
BF appointed minister plenipotentiary in
BF’s appointment to
and BF’s arrival in France
BF’s attempted resignation from
BF’s bagatelles in
BF’s departure from
BF’s diplomatic style in
BF’s flirtatious relationships in
BF’s household in
BF’s mock scientific essays in
BF’s public relations campaign in
BF’s resignation from
BF’s writing of
Autobiography
in
commission-seeking supplicants in
French loans in
French policy in
Jefferson in
Lee-BF feud in
Lodge of Nine Sisters controversy in
Mesmer commission investigation in
military alliance treaty in
new European treaties in
peace negotiations in,
see
Anglo-American peace negotiations of 1782
planned attack on Britain in
proposed Franco-American alliance in
realism and idealism in
Spain’s rejection of treaty in
Temple Franklin in
trade and friendship treaty in
Wentworth’s secret mission and

Parker, James

Parliament, British,

colonial representation in
Scotland in
taxation power of
see also
House of Commons, British; House of Lords, British

Parliament, Irish

Parrington, Vernon

Parsons, William

Partridge, Elizabeth

Paterson, William

“Paul Revere’s Ride” (Longfellow)

Paxton Boys

peace negotiations,
see
Anglo-American peace negotiations of 1782

Peale, Charles Willson